1. So football (soccer) will finally get the respect here that it deserves. (MLS is OK, but it doesn't really compare to the Premier League, in my opinion.)
2. Superior grasp of the English language by Brits will rub off on Americans everywhere. (And we Anglophones need to stick together.)
3. British pubs will finally be able to teach Americans how fish and chips is properly prepared. (You use a flat fish like plaice or flounder, not a lumpy fish like cod!)
4. Brits will finally be able to take advantage of superior American technology pricing.
5. It would give Brits a good reason to send the Royal Family packing (to Australia, probably).
6. We could replace American newsanchors with British newsreaders.
7. You don't want to join the US *after* Canada, Australia, or New Zealand have already joined. Ask Hawai'i; nobody likes to be the last kid on the bus.

We can also teach the English how to drive on the "right" side of the road!
We could convert to pounds or Euros, and not worry about inflation (at least for a while)
Tony Blair could be our Vice President.
We could build a tunnel to Liverpool.

But that would leave us with a predicament, England joins the US, while there is a New England which was created after England was created but joined the states earlier O_O people would get confused.

and just so i can get flamed

Baseball >>>> Soccer

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Don't forget about York, England, not to be confused with New York, or with York, Alabama. Or Birmingham, England, not to be confused with Birmingham, also Alabama. Or Edinburgh, Scotland, not to be confused with Edinburgh, South Dakota (I think). The list probably goes on.

I can't stand when Americans say that another country should be added as their 51st state. That just really ticks me off.

The one I hear all the time is that Canada should be added as the 51st state (and sometimes also that they should send all their criminals up there)

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I was being rather facetious... but it's not just Americans who have done this. Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter (both good Englishmen) suggested in their novel The Light of Other Days that England (and Wales, but not Scotland or Northern Ireland) would secede from the EU and join the US to become part of the American economy.

And besides, Canada is obviously large enough to become SEVERAL states... with a disproportionately large number of Senators.

Just think of how much sooner you would have had the iTunes store! And just think of how much better edesignusa sounds!

(And I don't think Clay is a Brit-hater or ethnocentric!)

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Certainly not. I lived in England for three years, so I appreciate everything it has to offer. And don't underestimate the effect that all those millions of English voters would have on the US political system... the English would comprise almost 15% of the electorate.

Certainly not. I lived in England for three years, so I appreciate everything it has to offer. And don't underestimate the effect that all those millions of English voters would have on the US political system... the English would comprise almost 15% of the electorate.

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Hmmm...but Tony Blair backs George W, and it looks like he's going to do well for himself in May. I think that should be enough reason to bring the Canadians in first. We can beta-test out indoctrination program on them, with their crazy gravy-on-fries thinking, and then we'll get the Brits. 'Sides....this way, we get several months during which we can keep all the Tim Hortons' to ourselves!

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